Making money from natural disasters

Naomi Klein writes in The Nation about disaster capitalists salivating over Hurricane Sandy: Less than three days after Sandy made landfall on the East Coast of the United States, Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute blamed New Yorkers’ resistance to big-box stores for the misery they were about to endure.… Writing on Forbes.com… [1]… he explained that…

Why Palestinians call for boycotts against Israel

Abir Kopty in The National: The Palestinian cause is not a charity. The international community, however, has often failed to grasp the nature of the struggle for justice, preferring to channel funds to Palestinian “development” projects to compensate for the lack of will to put serious pressure on Israel. That mentality has been challenged by…

Memo to Europe; Israeli occupation won’t end with a few harsh words

Amira Hass in Haaretz: Compared to the value of the security technology Israel sells overseas, the value of European imports from the settlements are mere pocket money. Israel’s economy won’t be hurt even if European governments adopt the measures proposed by a group of nongovernmental organizations in order to shrink trade with the settlements and…

Zionist colonies need to be excluded from polite society

Much stronger boycotts are required to protest apartheid Israel – the two state “solution” was killed years ago -… but this is all encouraging: Warning European shoppers that supermarket shelf grapes and dates tagged “made in Israel” are probably produced in “illegal” settlements, NGOs on Tuesday demanded an EU-wide ban on imports of settlement goods. In…

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